The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-03-12

inc to grlnu the Soo" VI TIC S''"N7
,otton plant. As TO the location OF these
,reat mills Mr.. Armour said four cities
,aa thus far been determined upon,
Memphis, atlanta, New Or
leans and Houston, Texas. The other
eight cities had been selected, on'
some details must b, perfected before
announcing their definite location Inc
Times correspondent has reason to be-
lieye that Texas will capture three OIL
the new mills, Arkansas two, and Ala'
bama and Mississippi one each
The following are clipped from
the columns Of the Orange County |
Farmer, as being a true state OF
affairs among the average BEGINNERS
in small fruit culture:
We hear and read much Of "Suc-
cess with Small Fruits and 1t seems
.,uite the thing for one who has sue
ceeded in securing better than the
average results in the growth OF any
farm or garden crop, if not to boast
of il at least TO mention it; and this
is perhaps well, as it tends to ell.
courage others to strive to equal
The results reached by these sue
cessful growers. But | have often
thought that, if some Of the mis-
takes made BY farmers and fruit
growers could be faithfullyrecorded,
it might often result in at least
equal advantages to those interested
m the growth of those products on
which the mistakes were made, by
causing them to avoid the same.
One of the most common MIS-
takes in strawberry culture, and one
which in my earlier experience
: often fell into, | believe to be the
4 effort to carry an old bed along OF
the same plot of ground for to-
many years in succession wlthou
replanting. Now, although b,
: thorough culture applied at just tn
right time throughout the seaso1
strawberries may be continued 10
) several years on the same ground
. am satisfied, and in this bellev
- most experienced growers will agre
- with me, that it is much bette
economy, when we take into accour
. the labor expended in their culture
to replant as often as every secon
=, or third year, at longest, than
" try to clean out tho old bed, es
r. pecially where one has plenty
land, so that the use Of the land
not more of an object than the Ii
~ Dor laid out on them.
- Another mistake often made
strawberry growing is the failure
.. provide winter protection, or, VIII
" is equally as fatal to success, t
outing on of mulch of too gre
V thickness, or of Such a nature
d will tend to smother out the plan
ou- 1t is not so much the freezing,
18th continued freezing and thaw:ng
ort strawberry plants, that has the
out feet to winter-kill them, and al
a thing that will shade the grou1
oil serving to retain the frost and
use put on in too great depth, is suita
+nre for the purpose.
n to One of my neishbors, a'few ye
) ss- since, applied a light coat of ho
h OF manure, containing a large amo
JIM of straw to his strawberry bed, a
was as he had excellent success in "
tering his plants that seas
P''l another neighbor, jumping to
conclusion that such horse mar
their
-. =, was the proper thing for wi
anks mulch, applied . coat of the s
nour the following year to his bed,
= e, put it on so thick as to smother
the plants, and every plant winter XII
The next season he planted